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Tuesday, February 14, 2017

RANDOM ENCOUNTER: SEAS OF THE SEA CHICKEN SAILS INTO PORT THIS MAY

A fiendishly fowl game in the wacky world of Random Encounter!

Monday February 13, 2017

‘Arrrrrrrrm yourself with a whole new set of powerful encounters in this new expansion brought to you by Jamie Keddie, designer of the original Random Encounter card
game. This time around, the incredible retro-pixelrific art is
nautically themed with favorites like giant man-eating clams, sirens, a
clan of Vikings, and a baby on a seahorse, to name a few. And what would
the game be without a progressively fatter series of sea chickens? The
question is… what do sea chickens eat? And how do they get so big??

Any fan accustomed to the original Random Encounter will have
no problem picking this stand-alone expansion up and playing. Games are
lightning-fast and play in 15 – 20 minutes. Players will each take a set
of 9 Encounter cards, each featuring one of the outrageous creatures
described above, and strategically create 5 piles of facedown
Encounters. Each Encounter is placed facedown so swindling deck
swabbies can’t peek. Place your Loot die (which indicates your victory
points) behind one of these Encounters to protect it, and let the random
encounters begin.

Random Encounters occur as
players take turns flipping over one of their respective card-piles and
declaring another opponent’s Encounter to duel against. Every card in
the Encounter has a number inside a colored skull-icon which indicates
its combat strength. The color of the skull indicates any special
powers. Defeating an Encounter that protects an opponent’s Loot die
allows you to steal a loot from them. The first to six Loot wins!

Random Encounter: Sea of the Sea Chicken brings 4 new special
powers to the Encounter cards. With a black skulled card, you can double
the combat strength of any Encounter that card is placed in, which can
create an overwhelming advantage. Any Encounter card with a purple skull
may flee to another one of your Encounters if the Encounter it is
included in is attacked. Salty swashbuckler-scuttled swimwear swept
sideways! Or something like that…

This is a complete stand-alone product which can be combined with the original Random Encounter: Plains of the Troll King, to create some hilarious off-the-wall land and sea mash ups.

Shell out $19.99 clams and this booty be ‘yerrrrrrs!

About IDW Games
IDW Games publishes both creator-owned and licensed tabletop games. The
division was launched in 2014 and has quickly found success with one of
the top-selling card games of the year with the Japanese import card
game Machi Koro. IDW Games offers a mix of popular licensed games such as The X-Files and CHEW as well as strategic hobby games such as Tammany Hall and Yedo.

About IDW
IDW Media Holdings, Inc. (OCTQX: IDWM) is a fully integrated media
company, which includes publishing, games, entertainment, and the San
Diego Comic Art Gallery.

IDW Publishing’s comic book and graphic novel catalog includes some of the world’s most popular entertainment brands, including Transformers, My Little Pony, Star Trek, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Ghostbusters, and Disney’s classic characters. At IDW’s core is its commitment to creator-owned comics including 30 Days of Night, Locke & Key, Wormwood, Ragnarök, V-Wars, and Archangel by bestselling sci-fi author William Gibson.

IDW Publishing is also home to the acclaimed and award-winning imprints;
Top Shelf, The Library of American Comics, Yoe! Books, and Artist Editions, showcasing the greatest original art ever published in American comic books.

IDW Games’ diverse line-up includes the international phenomenon Machi Koro, as well as hit licensed games such as X-Files, Back to the Future, The Godfather, and TMNT.

IDW Entertainment currently serves as the worldwide distributor of Wynonna Earp airing on the Syfy Channel in the U.S. and is producing BBC America’s Dirk Gently, based the best seller by Douglas Adams starring Elijah Wood and Sam Barnett, and Brooklyn Animal Control.